Fonds - Catherine Sarah McGowan fonds

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Catherine Sarah McGowan fonds

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  • 1939 - 1948 (Creation)
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    McGowan, Catherine Sarah

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1 cm of textual records

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(1939-1948 (Creation))

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Catherine Sarah McGowan, daughter of J.W. McGowan, attended Mount Saint Vincent Academy and was later a student at Mount Saint Vincent College, Halifax, Nova Scotia in the 1940's. In the summer of 1946 she was given the opportunity to work as a junior dietician in the Convalescent Hospital in Montreal, Quebec. In 1948 McGowan graduated from Mount Saint Vincent College with a Bachelor of Science. In 1949 McGowan was employed at the Department of Agriculture doing demonstration work in foods. Catherine later joined the Sisters of Charity and took the name Sister Catherine Joseph Marie. By 1997 Sr. Catherine was running daycare centres--the Jardin de los Ninos, and Centre Elisabeth Seton, and continues to work in the Dominican Republic.

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Fonds consists of a scrapbook which includes newspaper clippings and photographs of students from Mount Saint Vincent College. Also includes a Certificate of Qualification in Physical Training awarded to Catherine McGowan in 1944, and some diary entries.

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